Xiamaling Data base

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This a comprehensive database for the chemistry of the Mesoproterozoic Xiamaling Formation. The contains a summary of published data as well nee elemental analyses as indicated by italics in the data sheet.

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Some of the data listed here has already been published in: Heard, A.W., Wang, Y., Ostrander, C.M., Auro, M., Canfield, D.E., Zhang, S., Wang, H., Wang, X., Nielsen, S.G., 2023. Coupled vanadium and thallium isotope constraints on Mesoproterozoic ocean oxygenation around 1.38-1.39 Ga. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 610, 118127; Wang, X., Zhang, S., Wang, H., Bjerrum, C.J., Hammarlund, E.U., Haxen, E.R., Su, J., Wang, Y., Canfield, D.E., 2017. Oxygen, climate and the chemical evolution of a 1400 million year old tropical marine setting. American Journal of Science 317(8), 861-900; Wang, X., Zhang, S., Ye, Y., Ma, S., Su, J., Wang, H., Canfield, D.E., 2023. Nitrogen cycling during the Mesoproterozoic as informed by the 1400 million year old Xiamaling Formation. Earth-Science Reviews, 104499; Zhang, S., Wang, X., Wang, H., Bjerrum, C.B., Hammarlund, E.U., Haxen, E.R., Wen, H., Ye, Y., Canfield, D.E., 2019. Paleoenvironmental proxies and what the Xiamaling Formation tells us about the mid-Proterozoic ocean. Geobiology. doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12337 The new previously unpublished data is indicated by italics. All of this data was collected using ICP-MS after complete sample digestion using standard protocols as summarized, for example, in the Wang et al AJS paper listed above.

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